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Federal Register

2026

01-27-2026

Medicare and State Health Care Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Request for Information Regarding the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and Beneficiary Inducements CMP

2020

11-20-2020

Final Rule: Medicare and State Health Care Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Revisions to Safe Harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute, and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules Regarding Beneficiary Inducements

11-20-2020

Final Rule: Removal of Safe Harbor Protection for Rebates Involving Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Creation of New Safe Harbor Protection for Certain Point-of-Sale Reductions in Price on Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Certain Pharmacy Benefit Manager Service Fees

  • On March 22, 2021, OIG issued a notification of the court-ordered delay of the effective date of this final rule. That notification stated that the effective date of the amendments to 42 C.F.R. § 1001.952(h)(6) through (9), (cc), and (dd) is delayed until January 1, 2023. The notification also stated that the effective date of the corrections published at 86 Fed. Reg. 7815 (Feb. 2, 2021), is delayed from March 22, 2021, to January 1, 2023. See 86 Fed. Reg. 15,132 (Mar. 22, 2021).
  • On November 15, 2021, Public Law 117-58 became law. Section 90006 of Public Law 117-58 states that:
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not, prior to January 1, 2026, implement, administer, or enforce the provisions of the final rule published by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services on November 30, 2020, and titled ''Fraud and Abuse; Removal of Safe Harbor Protection for Rebates Involving Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Creation of New Safe Harbor Protection for Certain Point-of-Sale Reductions in Price on Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Certain Pharmacy Benefit Manager Service Fees'' (85 Fed. Reg. 76666).
    Consequently, there is a three-year moratorium on implementation of the amendments to 42 C.F.R. § 1001.952(h)(5) and 42 C.F.R. § 1001.952(h)(6) through (9), (cc), and (dd).

04-21-2020

Grants, Contracts, and Other Agreements: Fraud and Abuse; Information Blocking; Office of Inspector General's Civil Money Penalty Rules

2019

10-09-2019

Revisions to the Safe Harbors Under the Anti-Kickback Statute and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules Regarding Beneficiary Inducements

01-31-2019

Removal of Safe Harbor Protection for Rebates Involving Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Creation of New Safe Harbor Protection for Certain Point-of-Sale Reductions in Price on Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Certain Pharmacy Benefit Manager Service Fees

2018

08-27-2018

Request for Information: Medicare and State Health Care Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Request for Information Regarding the Anti- Kickback Statute and Beneficiary Inducements CMP

2017

12-27-2017

Notice: Solicitation of New Safe Harbors and Special Fraud Alerts

01-11-2017

Final Rule: Health Care Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Revisions to the Office of Inspector General's Exclusion Authorities

2016

12-28-2016

12-06-2016

09-19-2016

03-17-2016

2015

12-23-2015

10-28-2015

2014

12-31-2014

10-02-2014

07-11-2014

05-13-2014

05-09-2014

2013

12-27-2013

12-20-2013

05-17-2013

04-08-2013

2012

12-28-2012

06-18-2012

06-01-2012

2011

12-29-2011

10-12-2011

04-07-2011

03-17-2011